Directed By- Marc Webb
Writer(s)- James Vanderbilt, Steve Kloves, Alvin Sargent; Based on "The Amazing Spider-Man by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko
Starring- Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Martin Sheen, Sally Field, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Chris Zylka, Irrfan Khan
Critics Review- "This is a grittier webslinger saga, led by a Peter Parker with swagger and angst and a tone defined more by emotional resonance than wide-eyed wonder. It still has plenty of fizz."- Chris Vognar "Dallas Morning News"
Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 72% Audience- 84%
Out of a possible 5 stars- 4 1/2 stars
My Review-
It has been 5 years since Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3, which was not that good to be honest. Now in 2012 we have a new take on the Peter Parker story, from director Marc Webb whose first feature film was (500) Days of Summer and for only his second feature film Marc Webb as promising career in directing movies. With this reboot things are different; there's no Mary Jane Watson, but Gwen Stacey, and character that most fans have been wanting to see for a long time since Raimi got it wrong in Spider-Man 3. The chemistry worked really between Garfield and Stone, and you could see on screen how much they were in to each other to begin with and that can work well in a movie. Also in this reboot we got to see Peter's Parents for the first time and get some what of a reason of why he had to stay with his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, played wonderfully by Sally Field and Martin Sheen in my opinion were kind of better in this one, and they interacted more with each other in this film. Another thing we were looking forward to for a long time was the villain we were longing to see was Dr. Connors as The Lizard, and this was the lizard from the comics not the cartoon which a lot of people seemed to be mad at, in my opinion I liked this take on Lizard and how it was more from the comics rather then the cartoon and Rhys Ifans was great as Dr. Connors. With Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man he did his own take on this well known character, he was more of a geek in this one and more of a smart-ass when he was in the costume, which I really liked. Also new movie means a whole new suit in this one it showed us the process of him trying to chose what material to use to make it and how he made his mask and everything which was cool. We also got a better reason to why Peter chose to become the hero that he was meant to be, first as a vigilante then as a hero, a process that he had to grow through when he was finally asked who he was. This movie was both funny, and had a little more dramatic elements; in this one Aunt May and Peter were able to grieve a little bit more after Ben had died, Sam Raimi really did not do that in the first one in 2002 version. Lastly Denis Leary as Captain Stacey, no one could have played this better then he did, he did what he did best somewhat of a smart-ass dad and it worked really well since he normaly does that in some films. There were elements that I really liked in Webb's take on this series and elements I really liked in Raimi's series, Both Raimi and Webb each set there own tone in their Spider-Man films; and each one had certain things that in away stood out more then other, with Webb one of the major differences were the web shooters that Peter made for this movie which I liked. I am hoping that in this new take on Spider-Man Webb returns because I would like to see what he does next. However the only problem I had with the movie was the James Horner's score and I am hoping they get someone else to score the music because it seemed like the score did not fit to well with the movie, certain scenes were good with the music and other scenes it did not work. This is a new take on the Spider-Man saga and some people may like it, some people may hated it but its worth the watch, I will watch it again in 3D to see how it is since it was film in 3D, this worth the watch to see a new take on the web head to form your own opinion on it since it can go either way for some people.
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